Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sure enough, the French-designed "democratic" assembly proved to be a rubber-stamp affair dominated by a French chairman. Ngo Dinh Diem resigned, and the French indignantly branded him a revolutionary, stripped him of all his academic titles and government decorations. "Take them," retorted Diem. "I don't need them. They are not important...
Murder Mistake. When World War II came, Ngo Dinh Diem withheld his support from all three of the forces tusseling for control of the country?the Japanese, the French and Ho Chi Minh's Communists, although they all sought his cooperation. At war's end, Ho's agents arrested Diem and hauled him off to the mountains of the north. For good measure, they shot Diem's older brother, Khoi, a provincial chief who had fought the Reds. Months later, Ho personally summoned Diem, demanded that he take a post in the new national government that...
...shooting war in 1946, he formed a resistance movement against them both; it never amounted to much. The French offered to back him as head of a provisional government at one stage, but they balked when he demanded dominion status for Viet Nam. Finally, amid the bloody fighting, Ngo Dinh Diem packed up and left with an older brother, Ngo Dinh Thuc, a Catholic priest, for a trip around the world. Reaching the U.S., Diem paused to rest and meditate at Maryknoll Junior College in Lakewood, N.J. While there, he made trip after trip to Washington to harangue Congressmen...
...Friends. But the U.S. could not drop its French allies in the midst of a shooting war. Disheartened, Ngo Dinh Diem departed for Belgium to take up a monk's bleak life as a lay member of a Benedictine monastery in Bruges...
...remove Emperor Bao Dai, who still technically held his position as Chief of State. In October 1955, Diem organized a referendum to that end. The results: 5,722,000 votes for Diem, 63,000 for Bao Dai. The Republic of South Viet Nam was proclaimed, and Premier Ngo Dinh Diem became its first President...